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This book reviews the circumstances that led to what Paul Renner called "the inflation of historicism," places his response to that problem in the context of the Weimar Republic, details how the...

The two questions Paul asked in 1 Cor 10:29b-30 are so intriguing that they must have puzzled the apostle himself, and his readers. This is because the manner these questions were introduced into the...

This work has been done within a trilateral German-Israeli-Palestinian Research project sponsored by the "Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft" DFG. Leishmaniasis is a vector borne disease caused by a...

In civil society, a major actor of peacebuilding processes, networking is rapidly increasing its importance. Therefore this book analyses a nongovernmental organization based in India which follows a...

One of the primary challenges facing researchers and practitioners in their efforts to address issues of poverty and environment is the need to deepen our understanding of the logic that guides...

Although considerable attention has been directed toward the value of peer assessment where learning is enhanced through maximizing the opportunities for students to share their work with others in...

Peer EducationAuthor: Dal SohalPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 27, 2008Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836484218ISBN-13: 9783836484213

This qualitative study of peer tutoring in several situations at the University of Utah builds upon previous conceptualizations of peer tutoring in order to re-con-ceptualize the tutoring process...

Peer-to-Peer CollaborationAuthor: Martin ScheiblPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 02, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836485826ISBN-13:...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet countries have become enmeshed in the processes of democratization, moder-nization, and overall institutional reform. New ideas about...

Procedures are used today in all areas of life including business, education, politics and as in this study to determine a group's ethnicity. American Indians are the only ethnic group that must...

Perceptions of EmpowermentAuthor: Ingrid Brag?Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 08, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639041690ISBN-13:...

As the last few decades have seen a proliferation of debate concerning today's international system referred to as "globalization", education has experienced an exponential rise in curriculum (such...

Perceptions of Mental Health ProblemsAuthor: Nada EltaibaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 12, 2007Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Research on moral development has been dominated by the work of Lawrence Kohlberg and James Rest who have sought to construct and validate a universal model of moral development. Compared with other...

Taking the basic social unit of the household as a point of departure, this research reviews two complex, yet interrelated variables of the land- housing debate. Firstly, the perception of the home...

Perceptions of South Africa through FilmAuthor: Sarah E. YehlePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 18, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book examines the relationship between the civil religious beliefs of the American public and that public's perception of the presidency. Data from the Reagan-Mondale presidential contest are...

Perceptual Training for Learning English VowelsAuthor: Xinchun WangPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 19, 2008Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Modern applications frequently employ sophisticated object-oriented design. In these codes, deep loop nests are often spread across multiple routines. To achieve high performance, such codes rely on...

The enormous growth of demand for higher bandwidth on the wireless sector rises continuously while established cell based technologies reach their capacity limits. The multimedia abilities of mobile...

The dissertation explores interpretive conditions of contemporary performance art and interdisciplinary studies. It sets out with a discussion of Richard Foreman's I've Got the Shakes (1995), which...

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless access technology based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. The scope of WiMAX is to provide last mile wireless broadband access for...

This book provides a statistical framework for performance modeling and design of backscatter Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. The current models for estimating performance are based...

Concerns over the indoor conditions have increased during recent years as a result of knowledge about indoor environmental quality on health, comfort and productivity of the workforce. The efficiency...

Occurring at the juncture of art and commerce, heavy metal music is a purposeful construction engaging multiple performative realms. Metal musicians make performative choices for serving particular...

Performing between the ActsAuthor: Heather EmgePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 06, 2008Number of Pages: 72 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 383646764XISBN-13:...

On the Broadway stages of the nineteen eighties, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Eric Bogosian, and John Leguizamo brought performance art to the mainstream audiences in the United States. Their work...

This book focuses on the analysis and application of permanent magnet (PM) AC motors (including PM synchronous motor (PMSM) and brushless DC (BLDC) motor) drive system. The first topic of the book is...

Permeation Barrier for Lightweight Liquid Hydrogen TanksAuthor: Schulthei? DanielPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 11, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or...